Challenging vs Tempting - What's the difference?
challenging | tempting |
The act of making a challenge.
* Estcourt Rowland Metzner, The conflict of tax laws (page 151)
Attractive, appealing, enticing.
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, title= Seductive, alluring, inviting.
The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
* (William Bridge)
As verbs the difference between challenging and tempting
is that challenging is present participle of lang=en while tempting is present participle of lang=en.As adjectives the difference between challenging and tempting
is that challenging is difficult, hard to do while tempting is attractive, appealing, enticing.As nouns the difference between challenging and tempting
is that challenging is the act of making a challenge while tempting is the act of subjecting somebody to temptation.challenging
English
Verb
(head)Antonyms
* unchallengingNoun
(en noun)- There are always sincere challengings of the findings, always the objections (sincere in another sense) of those whose interests seem threatened.
See also
* challengetempting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?